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UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 11 2013 (IPS) – Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems.

“We’re all scared,” said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. “But we must tell the truth about what’s happening and challenge people to do something to prevent it,” Ehrlich told IPS.

Global collapse of human civilisation seems likely, write Ehrlich and his partner Anne Ehrlich in the prestigious science journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society.

This collapse will take the form of a “…gradual breakdown because famines, epidemics and resource shortages cause a disintegration of central control within nations, in concert with disruptions of trade and conflicts over increasingly scarce necessities”, they write.

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Escalating climate disruption, ocean acidification, oceanic dead zones, depletion of groundwater and extinctions of plants and animals are the main drivers of the coming collapse, they write in their peer-reviewed article “Can a collapse of global civilisation be avoided?” published this week.

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“We talked to many of the world’s leading experts to reflect what is really happening,” said Ehrlich, who is an eminent biologist and winner of many scientific awards.

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“To continue with ‘business as usual’ is an act of suicide on a gargantuan scale,” Prince Charles concluded.

The earth can and will produce what it has and more until the sun burns out or until they decide to replace it with a sguiggly CFL, I think that part is fine.
The problem is the genetic debris like the the dummie that started this thread at DU. people like this with barely the mental capacity to execute bodily functions need to be removed from the decision making process, i.e. our current administration and the powers that be in Europe.

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.

The earth can and will produce what it has and more until the sun burns out or until they decide to replace it with a sguiggly CFL, I think that part is fine.
The problem is the genetic debris like the the dummie that started this thread at DU. people like this with barely the mental capacity to execute bodily functions need to be removed from the decision making process, i.e. our current administration and the powers that be in Europe.

You mean those CFL's that cause mercury poisoning when they burst and skin cancer easier than the sun?

I feel that once a black fella has referred to white foks as "honky paleface devil white-trash cracker redneck Caspers," he's abdicated the right to get upset about the "N" word. But that's just me. -- Jim Goad